Journaling is the voice behind your scrapbook photos. Through it you provide important facts such as who is in the pictures, why, where and when the photos were taken, as well as stories, anecdotes, snippets of conversations, jokes, favourite poems and lyrics.
This guide will instill in you the confidence and capabilities that will make journaling a fun and creative part of your scrapbooking activities. Before you know it you'll feel as comfortable using your journaling pen as you are using any others.
Waiting for you inside this book are:
- Tips on what to say and how to say it
- Lists of powerful, descriptive words to make your journaling spring to life
- Clues for overcoming journaling jitters and the dreaded 'writer's block'
- Interviewing techniques and questions
- Creative journaling styles
- Practical methods for adding journaling to crowded pages
- A stunning gallery of colourful scrapbook pages to illustrate and inspire
- .... and so much more!!
Contents:
Introduction
- What is journaling
- Why you may not journal (yet)
- Why you should journal
Getting Started
- Spending time with your photos
- Being a photo detective
- Just write
- The information on every page should include ...
- Leaving room for journaling
- When you absolutely have to journal: Travel, Wedding, Children, Heritage and yourself
Beyond the Basics
- Using descriptive words
- List of descriptive words
- Using active words
- List of action words
- Appealing to the senses
- List of sense-related words
- Incorporating thoughts and feelings
- Incorporating other voices
- Interviewing tips
- Tools to help you journal
- Making design and journaling work together
When Journaling is Difficult
- Overcoming writer's block
- Writing about the hard times
- Journaling about the photos you don't have
- Adding journaling to finished pages
- Fixing journaling mistakes
Think Outside the Box: Other Styles
- Bullet
- Dictionary
- Recipe
- Timeline
- Postcard
- Classified Ad
- Acrostic
- Step-by-step
- Fairy tale
- Poetic
- Found
- Calendar
- Newspaper
- Perspective
- Top-ten list
- Correspondence
- Rebus
- Comic strip
- Other styles
- Creating book jacket bios
- Making a memory wheel
Grammar guide
Credits, sources, bibliography
Index
Review:Imagine looking 50 years into the future as your great grandchildren look through your scrapbook. There are plenty of great photos; there may even be notes on the dates and subjects. But beyond that, nothing. Eventually they close the album, having learned little about their ancestors in the early 21st Century. - Reviewer, Amazon.com
